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RAILROAD TICKET.

No. 484,331. Patented Oct. 11, 1892 O 010I l gx m in! Hugmnnml E E1 immyum D. "www 1N: mm ruins nu., mam-umol, wnmncrruu, u. c.

IUNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EDWARD L. LOMAX, OE OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AND BENJAMIN E. ANDERSON,

OE orIIOAeO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOES OE ONE-THIRD To ALLEN I. BLANCH- AED', OE OHIOAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILROAD-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,331, dated October 11, 1892.

Application filed April 8, 1890. Serial 110.347,028. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..- or letters being chosen irregularly, Without Be it known that we, EDWARD L. LOMAX, rereference to the sequence of the stations, any o siding at Omaha, Douglas county, Nebraska, may be used that are desired, and if at any and BENJAMIN B. ANDERSON, residing at Chitime they become known to outside parties 5 cago, Cook county, Illinois, citizens of the they may be changed and adifferent set sub- United States, have invented a new. and usestituted. In this waytliey form what we have ful Improvement in Railroad-Tickets, of termed a cipher, which is perfectly intelliwhich the following is a specification. gible to those acquainted with it; but being As is well known, tickets are sold upon the known merely to the ofncials of the road it will Io various railroads of this country entitling the be impossible for the holder to alter the tickholder to ride from one city to another, and et, since, although he might erase the name of in case of local tickets,or tickets entitling the the destination and substitute the name of 6o holder to travel from one station to any other another station therefor, he would be unable short of the terminal of the road, frequent to put upon the ticket the cipher correspond- I5 trouble is met with from the tickets falling ing to such station.

into outside hands and being raised orhav- The figuresorletters may be simply printed ing the destination erased and a new destiupon the ticket, as shown, or, if desired, and nation farther on inserted, thus enabling the in order to render it more difficult to alter the holder to travel a greater distance than the ticket, they may be indented or embossed in 2o amount paid for the ticket would entitle him or upon the face of such ticket, since any to do. Way of accomplishing my object of providing The object of our invention is to provide a ticket with ciphers corresponding to the 7o means for preventing raising or alteration of starting and arriving stations will fall within these tickets, such means consisting` in proour invention. 25 Viding the tickets, in addition to the names We claimof thestations,with secret ciphers correspondl. A railroad-ticket provided with secret ing to such names. These ciphers are printed ciphers corresponding to the names of the staor otherwise placed upon the ticket, and contions between which it is valid, whereby any sist either of numbers or letters, as desired. alteration of such ticket without detection is 3o These numbers or letters are preferably ar; prevented, substantially as described.

bitrarily chosen without reference to the se- 2. A cipher-ticket provided with the names quence of the stations and may be altered of the two stations between Which it is valid 8o from time to time as it becomes necessary. and also with two secret-cipher numbers, ir- The drawing represents a plan view of a regularly chosen and corresponding to the 35 ticket provided with our improvement. names ot' such stations, substantially as de- The ticket in the case supposed runs from scribed.

Kansas City toJunction City, and,if printed 3. A cipher-ticket provided with the names in the ordinary form, the Words Junction of the stations between which it is valid and City7 might be erased and the name of a staalso With two secret ciphers corresponding to 4o tion more distant from Kansas City inserted such names, the faces of the ciphers being in in their place; but.- on this ticket we have adiiferent plane from the surface of the tickprinted, as shown, the number 500 near the et, substantially as described. bottom of the ticket and the number 545 EDWARD L LOMAX in larger figures across the face thereof. 45 Thesebtigureas correspond to the stations, the BENJAMIN B' ANDERSON' small number 500 representing selling sta- Witnesses: tion (Kansas City) and larger number 545 THOMAS A. BANNING, Junction City, the destination. The figures SAMUEL E. HIBBEN. 

